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Agustin Bejarano Bio  

1964
Born  Camagüey, Cuba
Currently lives and works in Havana, Cuba

EDUCATION

1984-1989
Superior Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba

1980-1984 
National School of Art (ENA), Havana, Cuba

1976-1980
Elemental School of Art, Camagüey, Cuba

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 
The Illusions of the Wanderer, Panamerican Art Projects, Miami, Florida

2006 
Bejarano, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

2005 
8 manos years old, Espacio Abierto Gallery, Havana, Cuba

2004  
Agustin Bejarano, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Nude Encounters, Realtime Studio, Distillery Visitor Center, Toronto, Canada
Meditaciones, Villa Manuela Gallery, UNEAC, Havana, Cuba
ARTCUBA 2004, Exposición de Arte Cubano Contemporaneo, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ecos, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

2003 
Los ritos del silencio, Servando Cabrera Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Paintings, Galerie Havana, Zürich, Switzerland.
Escaleras Martirizadas, St. Francisco de Asisi Convent, Havana, Cuba.

2002 
Imagenes en el tiempo, La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
El rostro anonimo, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

2001 
Cabezas Magicas, Habana Club Rum Foundation, Havana, Cuba.

2000 
Anunciaciones, VII Bienal de La Habana

1999 
Solo exhibition, Lausin & Blasco Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain
Paisajes y Naturaleza muerta, La Acacia Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Agustin Bejarano, Paintings and Engravings, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

1998 
El Hombre Inconcluso, GAN Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Agustin Bejarano, Works on paper and canvas, Galerie Havana, Zürich, Switzerland.

1997
Marea Baja, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

1996 
Tierra Humeda, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.

1995 
Voluntad de Silencio, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

1994 
Tierra Fértil, Havana Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Brisas del Alma, Center for the Development of Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba

1989 
Huracanes, Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba

1979 
Alejo Carpentier Gallery, Havana, Cuba

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003 
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Beauty and Strenght, The Elkon Gallery, Inc. New York

2002 
Art Miami, Miami, Florida
ARCO 2002, Madrid, Spain

2000
Paris Contemporary Art Fair
L’avant-garde cubaine a Paris, Galerie Etats D’Art, Paris
Art Miami, Miami, Florida
La Tentacion, Museo Panteon Nacional de Haiti
Artistas de Camagüey, Galeria Habana, Zürich, Switzerland.
Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1999 
Art Miami, Miami, Florida
Arte Cubano mas alla del papel, Centro Cultural de Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.

1998 
Iñaki City Cultural Hall, Hillside Forum Daikanyama, Tokio, Japon.
Tokyo Internacional Mini-Print Trienal ’98, Museo de Arte de la Universidad de Tama, Tokyo, Japon.

1997 
VI Havana Bienal, Castillo del Morro, Havana, Cuba
Art in Otro, Special Project, VI Feria on Contemporary Art, Guadalajara, Mexico
National Salon on Engraving Grabado ’97, Provincial Center for Plastic Arts and Design, Havana, Cuba.

1996 
New Art from Cuba and Mexico, David Flora Gallery, Wood Creek, Colorado.
The 3rd Sapporo International Print Biennale Exhibition, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan.
Biennial of Central America and the Caribbean, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Sculpture and graphic art from Cuba, Leuengasse Museum, Zürich, Switzerland.

1995 
Ego Sum un retrato imposible, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.

1994
Dibujo, no te olvido, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.
Imagenes de Marti, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba.

1993 
Comprame y cuelgame, Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba.

1992 
VI Salon of Prize Winners, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006
Caballero, Ruffo; Caridad Blanco and David Mateo. Agustin Bejarano, obras 1987-2005,
Arte Cubano Ediciones, 2006.

2005
Mateo, David. Agustin Bejarano. El Arte de la obsesion. In Palabras al acecho, Cauce Editorial,
Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 2005.

2004
Castellanos, Israel. Bejarano, un silencio que no termina de callar. In La Gaceta de Cuba, Havana,
November -December  2004.

Mateo, David. Nude encounters. Ania Alonso and Agustin Bejarano, exhibition catalogue,
Destillery Visitors Center and Realtime Studio, Toronto, 2004.

2003
Blanco, Caridad. Nidando en la memoria. Los Marti de Bejarano. In ArteCubano Magazine,
Havana, 1/2003.

Bermudez, Jorge. Metáforas de la salvacion. In Opus Habana magazine, Havana, No. 1/2003.

1997
Noceda, Jose Manuel. Marea Baja, exhibition catalogue, Nina Menocal gallery, Mexico City, July
1997

1994
Mateo, David. Brisas del Mar, exhibition catalogue, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, 
Havana, Cuba, June 1994.

SELECTED AWARDS

1997
First Prize , National Saloon of Printmaking ’97, Centro Provincial de Artes Plasticas y Diseño
Havana, Cuba.

1995
Prize, XI Latin American and Caribbean Biennial of Printmaking, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993
Prize, Printmaking Encounter, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.


1988
Prize, IV Saloon of Plastic Arts, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

1987
Prize, Printmaking Encounter, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

1978
Prize in Drawing, National Saloon of Plastic Arts Students, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana,
Cuba.

COLLECTIONS

National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba
Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba
Peter Ludwing Collection, Colonia, Germany.
Center of the Art, Florida.
Object Trouvé Collection, Belgium
Collection Lausin & Blasco, Zaragoza, Spain